Barrenest Quotes & Sayings

I have smoked marijuana, but I no longer do. I went to art school in the 1960s so you can imagine what was going on. Yet my friends were the ones who said, "No, no, no, David, don't take those drugs." I was pretty lucky. — David Lynch

She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don't, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category. — Gayle Forman

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen. — Theodore White

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened. — Julius Erving

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic? — Ron Fournier

We must have increasing participation within the scientific community and reasonable scientific discussion, putting aside the stigma that UFOs are voodoo science before any real advances can be made in understanding the real nature of the UFO phenomenon. — Larry Holcombe

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist — Thomas Carlyle

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there. — Wiz Khalifa

Something caught in her throat at this second thanks, when she'd threatened him so brutally. When you're a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty and receive no admiration for it. — Kristin Cashore

We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits.
- Joe Morelli — Janet Evanovich

That's right. Get thee behind me, bitches. I don't got no time for you. Ha! (Tabitha) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador. — Jackie Chan

I know well that healing comes-if one is brave-from within, through profound resignation to suffering and death, through the surrender of your own will and of your self-love. But that is of no use to me; I love to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life-artificial, if you like. Yes, real life would be a different thing, but I do not belong to that category of souls who are ready to live and also at any moment to suffer. I am everything but courageous in sorrow, and everything but patient when I am not feeling well, though I have rather a good deal of patience in keeping to my work. — Vincent Van Gogh

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case. — Nathaniel Rich

He lived far from the gods, but in his mind he was at home with them. — Pythagoras

I'm glad you could make it," she quipped, her voice not quite as steady as she wished.
"When you issue an invitation to your bedroom, it's common practice to make sure the door is unlocked," he returned without a pause. He looked beyond her and said, "It's also common to wait until your partner's here before you start getting the sheets hot."
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"Sorry," she quipped lightly, "I'm not familiar with the etiquette required of a mistress. Next time I'll make sure that you're in the bed before I throw hot coals at it. — Patricia Briggs